American Stories

Аннотация

It is fitting that the exhibition and catalogue American Stories: Paintings o f Everyday L ife, 1765-1915 coincide with a yearlong series of events and activities that celebrate American art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among them is the reopening of the American Wing’s Charles Engelhard Court and period rooms following their renova­tion. Within the next two years, we will inaugurate the rede­signed galleries for American paintings and sculpture. These major projects reaffirm the Museums long-standing commit­ment to the arts of this nation. Indeed, American art has been central to the mission of the Metropolitan since its founding in 1870.